Jane Goodall

News about Jane Goodall, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 15, 2015

Jane Goodall, who drastically altered the way humanity understands itself through her research on chimpanzees, now spends 300 days a year on the road advocating for forest conservation and sustainable development. MORE

Jul. 9, 2013

Animal welfare groups celebrate decisions by National Institutes of Health and United States Fish and Wildlife Services that may come close to halting biomedical experiments on chimpanzees; NIH announced that more than 300 of 360 or so chimpanzees it owns will be retired to sanctuaries, and Fish and Wildlife Services proposes to list all chimpanzees, including those in captivity, as endangered; Dr Jane Goodall says decisions are not end of efforts to protect chimps in captivity. MORE

Mar. 20, 2013

Hachette Book Group delays release of Jane Goodall book Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder From the World of Plants after it is found to contain passages copied from Web sites without attribution; Goodall acknowledges duplication and issues an apology for the lack of proper citation. MORE

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March 26, 2013, Tuesday

A forthcoming book by Jane Goodall, the primatologist known for her research on chimpanzees, contains passages taken from Web sites without attribution, according to a published report.
The Washington Post reported the borrowed passages...